Draft Minutes Fossoway and District Community Council
2 September 2014, Fossoway Primary School
Attending: Sandy Morrison, Alastair Lavery, Kevin Borthwick, Trudy Duffy (CC), Mike Barnacle, Dave Cuthbert (elected members) and 9 members of the public.
Apologies: Angus Cheape, Graham Pye, Rod Paterson, Willie Robertson, Joe Giacopazzi.
Police report: Euan Mitchell, Police Scotland in attendance. Police report received.
No crimes reported since last meeting.
Although not in the Fossoway area there have been reports of fly tipping. If you see this happening please call the police and report it giving details of vehicle registration numbers.
‘Enjoy the outdoors’ :- Consider others, keep speed on country roads down, give horses, walkers, and livestock plenty of room, keep away from farm animals and farm machinery, don’t block driveways or gateways, keep dogs under control. Don’t leave litter or destroy or remove plants. Don’t drop matches or smouldering cigarettes.
Be aware of fraudulent letters stating the recipient has won a large amount of money, and requires your bank details so the sum can be paid into your account. Do not give out your details unless you are certain the request is genuine.
Speed Checks and Static Checks continue to be carried out in the area by officers when time is available. The Ryder Cup is this month, so please be aware of local road closures.
Some incidents of vandalising ‘No’ campaign signs was raised. The public are asked to report such incidents but should be aware of limited resources to follow these up.
Both CC and elected members are disappointed by the lack of police presence during CC meetings. Euan stressed that if issues are raised during a meeting we could request an officer attend the next meeting if the situation is ongoing.
MOP brought up that when there was an incident (absconded pupil) at Seamab School the person on the other end of the 101 call had no knowledge of Seamab School. Eventually there was a reply from the community police officer. In those situations it may be better to use the 999 number.
Ryder Cup.
• Leaflet will shortly be available. Most of the traffic using the Balado car park will come over the M90. Peak hours are expected to be 6 to 8 am on Tuesday to Saturday and 10 to 12 noon on Sunday, return peak hours daily between 5 and 7.30pm.
• There will be temporary speed limits of 40mph on the A91 from the M90 junction to Carnbo, on the A977 from the M90 to the Tillyochie junction.
• Temporary road closures will be from 22 till 28 (29) September: A823 for through traffic between Yetts of Muckhart and A9, B918 between A91 and Burnbrae and Mawhill Road between A91 and B918.
• Some roads will have a one-way traffic system, changing at around 12 noon (time to to be confirmed) from one direction to the other. Roads affected are B918 (Tillyochie Road), C494 (Coldrain Road)U231 (between A977 and B918). Residents living in areas where roads are closed will be given special permits. Passes are also available at several points in Auchterarder and Muckhart.
• The police and the security personnel will take a common sense approach to letting people through closed-off roads.
• There is drop-off provision for the Balado, and other official Park and Ride car parks. However there is no drop-off facility at Gleneagles.
• In case of inclement weather, the event (and all the restrictions above) can continue through to Monday.
Minutes of the previous meeting: Signed off with the following amendment.
Member of the public remarked that we noted that the footpath at the Braehead development in Rumbling Bridge was completed while it actually has not been completed. In a short discussion this was clarified. The car park for visitors to the Gorge (also a planning condition) had not been finished either. The member of the public was advised to contact the Enforcement Officer of PKC to clarify the situation.
Matters arising:
Perth and Kinross Credit Union: Details now on the website: http://www.fossoway.org/links
Unpaid work team: Have been asking for inside jobs during the winter: Sandy has contacted the village halls and the Church but is still waiting for a response from all except Powmill.
Hydro Scheme: awaiting update
Blairingone War memorial: The wall against which the memorial will be placed has now been finished. The Council will mark out the area where the memorial should go, and when that is done Profile Projects will relocated it. A member of the public remarked that there are some trees in the immediate vicinity that could blow over and damage wall (made of breeze blocks) or the memorial. Mike Barnacle will propose a site visit to make sure everything is going to plan.
Crook Moss Travellers’ site: The deadline to comply with the conditions imposed by PKC is the end of October. No further update.
Glenquey Quarry: The application is not on the September agenda; next DMC on 15 October.
Blairingone community workshop: Meeting with the landowners, planning consultant and PKC on the 16th of September. Outcome will determine when the next workshop with the community will go ahead.
Lambhill Chipping plant: PKC is awaiting noise report. A site visit has still not happened, although councillors have been requesting this for some time. This situation has now been going on for two years. Communication between PKC and local residents is laborious. Local residents corresponding to the PKC planning department don’t get replies quickly if at all. One member of the public is now thinking of lodging a formal complaint.
Crook Moss Community Acquisition: nothing to report
Dunning Glen: Nothing to report.
Church Car Park: (question from a member of the public, not on the agenda): no progress, despite planning permission being granted, the council ready and the community willing to assist, but the church appears not to want to progress the matter.
New Business:
Fossoway Primary School: The School received a good report from HMI. However the CC was disappointed that monitoring of the school is now to by PKC. It would have expected a further follow up report from HMI prior to responsibility being passed to the Council. The reason for this comment is that the community was of the opinion that the previous problems were partly due to a lack of proper oversight by PKC. It remains to be convinced that PKC will be effective in this area in the future.
Landscape areas in Kinross-shire: See also Mike Barnacle’s correspondence in the Kinross newsletter. The new proposed LLA’s (in place of the Areas of Great Landscape Value) are Loch Leven, Portmoak and the Ochil Hills. The river Devon (and in particular the Gorge) and the Cleish Hills are not included. Clackmannanshire has recognised their part of the Devon landscape and Fife has recognised their part of the Cleish Hills; so there is a strong argument for inclusion of those landscapes in the LLAs. The CC will make representation.
Councillors’ reports
MB has written to PKC about the mitigation measures on the A977. He (and the CC) has received representation on the bad state of the road through Crook of Devon and the damage to the drains done by heavy vehicles, as well as the noise pollution through the day and the night. An answer has not been received, despite being promised by the 12th of August. The council has to survey the road. The A977 doesn’t seem to have priority for inclusion in the capital budget. We will have to keep asking for answers.
Planning:
14/01308/FLL:- Erection of 7 dwelling houses, formation of access road and associated infrastructure. Land 100 metres South of Merryorchard Rumbling Bridge.
This is a substantial development for Rumbling Bridge. Several objections to this development have been received and have been lodged on the planning website. The CC will object to this development as being contrary to:
PM1B (a and d): the development is out of scale with the surrounding development;
PM4: the site is out-with and immediately adjacent to the settlement boundary;
RD3: the site is not within the settlement boundary but no valid justification is given under the Housing in the Countryside Policy;
RD4: the developer proposes off-site affordable housing contribution for 1.7 houses. Rural areas need affordable housing.
14/1486/IPL: Erection of a dwellinghouse (in principle). Land 300 metres North East of Former Craigend Farm Powmill. The CC objects to this application as being contrary to: RD3: the site is not within a settlement boundary but no justification is given under the Housing in the Countryside Policy. This is a very incomplete planning application and no decision should be made until more information is available.
14/01359/FLL: Alterations and extension to dwellinghouse and garage, Mossgrove, Drum, Kinross. No CC comment.
Correspondence: all the correspondence was available for viewing. The Library is looking for volunteers to cover on the days that the library is now closed: Saturday afternoon and Monday. Meeting this Wednesday 10th September, 7pm, LLCC. There was some discussion on setting up a Fossoway Facebook page to promote events in the area. This will be investigated.
AOCB: Member of the public commented on the state of the A91, especially between Ballingall Bridge and Carnbo. There are deep craters and damage has been done to cars. When repairs are done, it is with materials that only last a short time. Mike Barnacle and Dave Cuthbert will take this up with PKC.
Draft Agenda for Next Meeting
• Welcome and Apologies
• Declarations of Interest
• Community Policing
• Minutes of last meeting
• Matters arising: Ryder Cup, Unpaid Work Team, Hydro Scheme, Blairingone War Memorial, Crook Moss Travellers’ Site, Glenquey Quarry, Community Workshop, Lambhill Chipping Plant, Crook Moss Acquisition, Dunning Glen,
• Community Councillors - Meetings Attended
• PKC Councillors’ Reports
• Planning
• Correspondence
• AOCB
Next Meeting: Tuesday 7th October 7:30 pm
Blairingone Primary School
All welcome
